A new Pentagon office created to monitor reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundred” new reports, but there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life yet, agency officials told reporters on Friday. In July, the All-Field Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was created, responsible for tracking not only unidentified objects in the sky, but also an object underwater or in space, or perhaps one capable of traversing through space. another to follow.

The office was created after more than a year of focusing on unidentified flying objects that military pilots observe but sometimes hesitate to report for fear of being stigmatized. In June 2021, the Department of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021 there were 144 such collisions, 80 of which were recorded by multiple sensors.

Since then, “we’ve had a lot more reports,” said Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the anomaly office. The office was created not only to examine the question of whether extraterrestrial life exists, but also because of the security threat posed by numerous encounters with unidentified flying objects, military objects, or military aircraft.

Congress held its first hearings on the issue in more than half a century in May of this year, with many members expressing concerns about whether the objects are aliens or a potentially new, unknown technology operated by China, Russia, or another potential adversary. poses a security risk.

“We haven’t seen anything so far, and we’re in the very early days to lead us to believe that the objects we’ve seen are aliens,” said Ronald Moultrie, Undersecretary of Defense of the US Department of Defense. intelligence. and security.

In addition to UFOs, there are many new technologies used by both the United States and China that can be mistaken for UFOs such as stealth bombers and stealth fighters of the future, drones and hypersonic missiles. Kirkpatrick said the new office is working in coordination with the Pentagon and the US intelligence community to obtain signatures of US technology to disable such aircraft or drones.

“We have very clear mechanisms in our blue programs, both our DoD programs and our IC programs, to eliminate any observations that come with blue operations and to enable us to screen them and identify them early enough,” Kirkpatrick said. It refers to “blue” US aviation programs run by the Pentagon or intelligence services. Source